Who
lives on Luna? Permanent residents in my realm are
few, though some of us live here for millennia by human counting.
We receive dreamers and soul travelers in vast numbers.
We are a transit lounge for spirits on their way to incarnation on
Earth, and for ex-physicals who come up from the sublunar planes. Some of those
admitted to this realm after death on Earth find solace for ages in our pleasure palaces
and studios, before they are ready for another death and another birth. Some
pursue their studies in our schools, where many things are created and
discovered before they manifest on Earth. Some become interpreters and teachers
for physicals.
I
have heard that spirits transit this realm on the way to physical birth. Are
there conditions for taking on a human body? Is a contract made before a soul
goes down?
You don’t get born into a human
body without formalities. Everyone who is born on Earth has entered into a contract.
A typical contract specifies the allotment of time-energy available to you in
the life form you are entering. Time-energy is a package, not two different
things. In the Assyrian language, we have a precise term, shimtu. The exact length of the life you are given may vary
according to how carefully, or recklessly, you expend this time-energy. Living
in balance, averaging a gentle cruising speed, you may manage a hundred years;
treat your body like a hot rod and you can go to the junkyard early.
The life
contract does not give ironclad protection again the events insurance companies
call “acts of God”, or against criminal interference.
You may end your
life prematurely. This is a serious contractual violation that has unhappy
consequences, though not the eternal damnation invented by some churchmen.
Suicide is never part of a life
contract. However, facing conditions that may tempt you to destroy yourself is
quite often an important clause.
The allotment of
time-energy is one of the two key elements in the contract. The other is the
definition of the life assignment you have agreed to undertake.
Contrary to
appearances, everyone born into a human body has agreed to their situation,
though not everyone has the same degree of choice and the choices that are made
are often ill-considered.
One of the
greatest acts of memory is to recall the terms of your life contract and who
you were and where you were when you
entered into it.
How
long do spirits remain in the realm of Luna after physical death?
Let’s be clear that this is a gated
community. You don’t get in without paying your dues. There are many who are
rejected at the gate, and some we have to throw out. They fall back into the
astral slums below us that the Greeks called Hades.
Some discarnates spend the equivalent
of many, many lifetimes here. They enjoy the social environment, they study and
teach in our schools, they practice reality creation. Some become mentors and
oracles for people on Earth. Some serve as messengers, zephyrs who carry dreams
to sleepers.
If you earn the right to go higher,
and choose to do that, you are given a new outfit and you are required to leave
your current vehicle behind. When you
take off your astral body, you don’t want to leave it lying around for anyone
else to pick up. Depending on the quality, that could be like leaving a fur
coat in the street. Someone is going to pick it up. Even if your threads are
worn, they might be attractive to a passing spirit that wants to put on a new
guise, or impersonate you, as a prank or for deliberate deception.
We have locker rooms where you can
check your astral body as you would check your street clothes on the way to the
gym.
Few of the graduates who leave
astral bodies in these lockers will wish to retrieve them. Now equipped with
celestial bodies – which don’t fit over or under an astral suit – they know the
joy of liberation from lesser forms and the appetites and cravings that go with
them.
However, there are other uses for
left-behind astral bodies. In the Messenger Service, some couriers are licensed
to use these outfits in their encounters with people down below. So the
deceased lover or father who visits a survivor could be that person, dropping
by in the astral body – or an actor who has dressed up in that guise.
The actors or guisers should not be
confused with the deceivers and thieves who hijack astral bodies for malign
purposes. Their operations have sown much confusion and darkness.
Drawing of a Daimon of Luna by Robert Moss
- Excerpt from "Conversation with a Daimon of Luna" in Mysterious Realities by Robert Moss. Published by New World Library.